The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-09-15
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

GEORGIA GLEANINGs.
Rev. 7. NJ. I. Brannon. Of Fair
burn is dead.
Burglariziug safes and stealing
horses and buggies is being carried
OH to some extent in Spalding coun-
ty, Ora.
Charlie Edwards, colored, has been
sentenced to hang at GAINESVILLE, Ga,
on October 18th for killing William
Echols, white.
The Constitution says, Mrs. Louisa
Huff, once Cobb county resident,
recently of Florida, died in Atlanta
last Tuesday Of malarial fever. Her
son, J. }. Huff is there sick.
J. W. Malcolm, brakeman, on the
State road, fell from a coal car near
Kingston, Tuesday, and was crushed
to death under the wheels Of the
train. lie lived at Tilton. He leaves
a wife.
Edgar Mathews, son Of William
Mathews Of Baldwin county, was Bit
ten on the face by pet dog, suppos-
ed to be mad, on July 23d Last
week hydrophobia ensued and he
died in great agony.
While some colored laborers were
working on the East Tennessee, Va.
q Ga. Railroad excavating and re-
moving the earth to fiji in yards Of
shops Of said road in Atlanta, they
unearthed the skeleton Of Federal
soldier and found $50 in gold.
DR.. l.. L. Borcheim, a prominent
and successful physician of Atlanta,
committed suicide at his room in the
kimball House, on last Sunday
morning by shooting himself in the
head with pistol. He was addicted
to the use Of morphine and cocaine.
Rev Donald Fraser, OF Decatur,
GA, was found dead in a kneeling
position on a train, while enroute for
home from Jacksonville, Fla, having
started in good health Heart dis
ease. He was the father Of Rev. Mr..
Fraser, temporary pastor Of the
Presbyterian Church, Marietta.
BY mistake, or rather through tho
rascality OF swindhng agent, DR.
Price Of Qconee county, signed 3
contract to buy thirty grain separa-
tors when he only wanted one They
were shipped to him at Madison, and
he has been hauling wagon-load after
wagon-load Of them fer the past few
days
MIR. DuPre's factory in Games
vile. Ga, makes about 1000, 900 q
day of as good matches as are made
in the world. The demand for then
is growing daily, and several of oul
most important Southern cities are
taking them in large quantities. They
are a Southern product, and as GOOD
as any othe: and as cheap,
William Pittman, Of Athens, has
discovered in bunch of bananas q
very curious animal. 1t was thought
by some to lie a tarantula, but a gen
tleman who knows says it is not one
Of these poisonous insects. |: look.
very much like crab. Mr.. Pitman
has it on exhibition in "A glass jar
and so far no one has been able tC
name it.
The invitation presented to Presi
dent Cleveland by Mir. Grady, re
questing him to attend the Piedmon
fair, is said to be the handsomes
and most unique thing OF the klnC
ever gotten up. ltrepresents Geor
gia wood, Georgia marble, Georgi;
silver, Georgia gold and Georgia dia
monds. The design is altogether
new, and has been greatly admired
by those who have seen it.
Sarah VIM, an old colored wo
man, living on the Hammock place
some ten miles below Fort Gaines
was burned to death in her house
last Thursday. Being paralyzed she
was unable to move, and The other
members of the family being absent
when the house caught fire, all she
could do was to lie there and watch
the flames creep slowly toward her
until finally she was enyeloped and
death came to her relief